The UK cable music channel The Box will back The Brit Awards Best British Video Award for the second year running. In order to attract more votes The Box will be screening special Brit Awards features six times a day for the six weeks leading up to the event.The Braben Company: 0171 289 1616
Rupert Garret is to move to GWR’s newly-created national sales house (subscribers see GWR Announces New Sales Operation) as an agency group head. He is expected to leave his post as head of radio at BBJ Media Services later this year although no definite date has been set. He will report to the national sales… Continue reading Rupert Garrett To Join GWR
Following extensive consultation, the Independent Television Commission (ITC) has decided to retain the requirement that 80 per cent of ITV programmes by subtitled. The ITC did not accept that the quota should be reduced but did allow an extra two years to allow ITV licensees to achieve this. The result is that the 80 per… Continue reading ITV Must Subtitle 80% Of Programmes By 2004
Reed Elsevier announced yesterday that it is to put its IPC Magazines division up for sale (subscribers see Reed Confirms IPC Sell-OffDespite industry sources speculating that a deal of this magnitude might be a stretch for Emap, chief executive Robin Miller told Newsline that Emap would be considering further the opportunity saying that there were… Continue reading Possibilities For IPC Magazines Sale
Treaty Radio Ltd. has signed a sound broadcasting contract with the Independent Radio and Television Commission (IRTC) for the provision of a local Limerick City and County radio service. The station will begin broadcasting as 95FM on 6th November. It can be received on 95.0FM in Limerick City and East Limerick and 95.3FM in West… Continue reading IRTC Sign Contract With New Limerick Station
Sunday afternoon’s screening of the Formula One Grand Prix from Jerez in Spain attracted a peak ITV audience of 7 million viewers, according to unofficial figures from the Network Centre. The average viewing figure for the race was 5.4 million, which is a viewing share of 49%.ITV Network Centre: 0171 843 8000
The official ABC //electronic audit for the NME online site, nme.com, was announced this week. The site is recorded as receiving 1,012,472 page impressions from 51,669 users. This covers the period 24 June-23 July 1997.nme.com is the third IPC site to receive ABC //electronic certification this month, following uploaded.com and newscientist.com.ABC //electronic: 01442 870 800… Continue reading nme.com Makes A Million Impressions
ITV’s coverage of the 1998 World Cup Finals is to be sponsored by Vauxhall in what is the biggest sports broadcast sponsorship of all time. The deal, negotiated with TSMS for ITV and by Western International Media on behalf of Vauxhall, is worth over £4m. Vauxhall will be both event and broadcast sponsor as it… Continue reading Vauxhall And World Cup 1998
A G Barr has struck a deal with its Tizer brand which sees it sponsoring two music programmes in the same day. Tizer will be endorsing the 1997 MTV Europe Awards and a one-off episode of the music programme The Noise, both to be broadcast on Saturday 8 November. This in addition to Tizer’s weekly… Continue reading Tizer Double Deal Sponsorship
According to agency estimates total terrestrial TV revenue for September came in at £212.54 million. Of this ITV brought in £156.71m and C4 £46.8m.There were relatively substantial year on year losses in impacts across all categories for ITV/C4 in September. Men was the audience hardest hit, with a drop of 7.5% while the category to… Continue reading TV Round-Up – September
